At the Faculty Day we honour some of the best researchers within the medical field. Here are the award winners of 2017! We’ll get a visit from a famous researcher ,  read more about that here

This year we’re handing out Søren Falch ophthalmologist and ophthalmologist Sigrud Falchs price reward for outstanding leadership in medical research (Falch’s senior prize) in addition to Falch’s junior prize, which goes to highly skilled researchers younger than 40 years.

Falchs senior prize goes to: Kenneth Dickstein
Falchs junior prize goes to: Bjørn Egil Vikse

The event will be on Thursday June 8th, in Stort Auditorium, Haukeland University Hospital.

6th Building Bridges Symposium Epigenetics in Clinical and Translational Research October 10-11, 2017 Biomedicum Helsinki, Finland

www.helsinki.fi/docpop/BB2017/

The Building Bridges symposia series is arranged to bridge clinical and basic/translational research and provide examples of how teams of investigators are working together towards a better understanding of the pathophysiology of disease and improved options for patient treatment and care.

The 6^th Building Bridges symposium will highlight how epigenetics research can be leveraged to improve our understanding of health and disease.  We set the stage by learning about the basics:  What is epigenetics?  How can studying epigenetics enable precision medicine?  Then, with research-focused talks from clinical and translational researchers, we explore detailed examples of discovery, development, and application in the areas of 1) epigenomics, 2) cell differentiation in disease, and 3) epigenetic modifiers as drug targets.  We close the symposium by engaging the public in the future societal applications of epigenetics Research.

Join us for the latest insights into epigenetics and epigenomics research and a special outreach session to the general Public!

Participants:  The course is targeted both as an introduction to epigenetics as well as a demonstration of advancements in epigenetics research.  As such, the events are open to the entire scientific community.  Doctoral candidates wishing to learn about epigenetics, especially in relation to human health and disease, are encouraged to attend.

Organizers: Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG, Barcelona), EU-LIFE, University of Helsinki Doctoral Programmes in Biomedicine (DPBM), Clinical Research (KLTO), and Population Health (DocPop)

UiB has an outstanding chance of being exposed to the TV broadcasts from the Road World Championships in Bergen. There has been established a good collaboration with the project manager on TV 2, Trond Ahlsen. Specifically, UiB, in collaboration with TV, wants to expose all the seven faculties to television and video / text in current programs and formats. The heading for the exposure is “public health”, but here is also the opening of different social perspectives in the cycling context: Environment – Transport – Exercise – Culture – History from the City and Western Norway – Geology – Nutrition – More general information about the buildings of UiB and our profile. The broadcast surfaces are ”Good Morning Norway”, the actual race broadcasts and evening shows, so there are many hours of TV to be filled with content.

Feel free to come with ideas for People, Research, education and others things that can be worked into Television broadcasts. Send it to Irene irene.hjelmaas@uib.no by Friday June 9th 2017

Entrepreneurship in Healthcare Course 2 We are happy to announce Entrepreneurship in Healthcare, course 2. The course is meant for the best young health researchers and clinicians within the Nordic countries. The aim is to promote innovation and commersialisation of health research. Both UoB and NTNU sent several well qualified researchers to the Entrepreneurship in Healthcare Course 1. It is possible to send candidates direct to Course 2, although it is recommended that Course 1 is finished first.

Dead line for Application  June, 15th

More information here

The Faculty Day, June 8th, 2017 at 10.00–13.00, Stort Auditorium, Sentralblokken

Program and overview of the prize winners are here.

The annual Søren Falchs lecture will be held by Professor Fred (“Rusty”) Gage, San Diego, CA. He published in 1998 that the brain may develop new nerve cells in adult life. This discovery of brain plasticity occurs throughout life and represent a basis for regenerative medicine targeting replacement of damaged CNS tissue at for instance stroke, Alzheimers disease and trauma.

Fred Gage will talk on “Function and Regulation of Neurons born in the Adult Brain” Thursday June 8th at 11:00–11:45 in Store Auditorium.

Karen Klepsland Mauland will defend her PhD thesis on Friday, June 9th, 2017
Trial lecture: Friday, June 9th, 2017 at 10:00 AM
Topic:  “The immune landscape in endometrial cancer, potential consequences for therapy”
Place: Auditoriet, Kvinneklinikken, Jonas Lies vei 72
Public defense: Friday, June 9th, 2017 at 12:00 PM
Place: Auditoriet, Kvinneklinikken, Jonas Lies vei 72
Title of dissertation:  “Context-related biomarkers in endometrial cancer. A study with focus on obesity and genomic alterations”
1st opponent: PhD Koen Van de Vijver, Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands
2nd opponent: Førsteamanuensis Kristina Lindemann, Universitetet i Oslo

Press release (in Norwegian)

Result of the elecction to The Board of the Faculty may be found here.

Any complaints must be issued within June 2nd

All employees at K1, K2 and IBM are invited to a general meeting at Stort Auditorium, Haukeland University Hospital, Tuesday at 13.00 – 13.45.

The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry has started the evaluation of the reorganization of 2013 (called “Framtidens fakultet”). What has improved after this reorganization and still needs improvement? more information here (only in Norwegian)

At the meeting, the faculty leadership will give a short introduction to the work with the evaluation and address questions and comments from the audience.

Summed up:

WHAT: General meeting for all employees regarding the evaluation of the reorganization of the faculty of 2013 («Framtidens fakultet»)

WHERE: Stort Auditorium, Haukeland University Hospital

WHEN: Tuesday May 23rd 2017 at 13.00 – 13.45